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The 1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage. [10] Maryland passes a law to allow Jews to vote. [11]
1890: The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Its first president is Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8]
[297] [298] While that measure did not pass, Cotnam was able to persuade the Governor to call for a special legislative session in 1917. [299] During this session, a bill to allow women to vote in primary elections was passed. [300] Arkansas became the first state that did not have equal suffrage to pass a primary election law for women. [301]
The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, which expanded maternity care during the 1920s, was one of the first laws passed appealing to the female vote. [328] Title IX is a federal civil rights law that was passed in 1972 as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education ...
July 21 – August 2 • First ratifying convention held in Hillsborough, North Carolina. With the hope of effecting the incorporation of a bill of rights into the frame of government, delegates vote (184–84) neither to ratify nor to reject the Constitution. [58] July 26 • Ratification New York becomes the eleventh state to ratify the ...
Some of those laws go into effect on Jan. 1 including: AB 1483 strengthens a rule against applying for more than one handgun in a 30-day period. The bill removes an exemption for a private party ...
The Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1976 was the first bill to enshrine the constitutional right to vote in federal elections into law for U.S. citizens living overseas. This bill also established uniform absentee voting procedures for U.S. citizens living overseas in federal elections.
New election laws going into effect in Rhode Island: Seventeen-year-olds can vote in a primary election as long as they are registered to vote and will be 18 by the time of the general election.